Ethical Issues Facing Health Care
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Ethical Issues Facing Health Care Paper
“Allowed to Die”
Kathren Gibson
University of Phoenix
Instructor: James Dockins
HCS/435
August 7, 2010
Ethical Issues Facing Health Care Paper
“Allowed to Die”
The issue of life versus death is as old as humankind, and certainly as a subject, just as powerful of an issue as it was centuries ago. Throughout history, the struggle for life has been a battle waged against the onset of death. Although a futile one, death is capable of coming when it is most unlikely, and at any age. Whereas some people prepare for death by generating written directives beforehand, many simply do not implement such actions and leave the hearth-retching task of deciding whether to prolong their lives opposed to allowing then to die to practitioners, family members, and love ones.
Although popular opinion frequently differs, the issue of prolonging life and euthanasia is as pertinent as individual opinion; eluding to moral values and principles. Although ageless, susceptibility to this type of medical crisis involves long-term illnesses in which individuals experience loss of body function (s); requiring either a decisions for prolonging life through life supporting techniques, or euthanasia. By definition and understanding prolonging life (life supporting measures), and euthanasia are as different as day and night. Prolonging life means the applied un-natural assisted intervention of modern medicine and technological techniques to keep a person alive, whereas although complex, euthanasia has many names and definitions: mercy killing, assisted suicide, and the right to die (Moreno, 1995).
In stricter terms, euthanasia refers to omissions or actions that willingly result in the death of an individual who is already gravely ill; inclusive of techniques of active euthanasia such as gunfire to lethal injection, passive euthanasia achieved by failing to treat pneumonia, or by withholding, or...
“Allowed to Die”
Kathren Gibson
University of Phoenix
Instructor: James Dockins
HCS/435
August 7, 2010
Ethical Issues Facing Health Care Paper
“Allowed to Die”
The issue of life versus death is as old as humankind, and certainly as a subject, just as powerful of an issue as it was centuries ago. Throughout history, the struggle for life has been a battle waged against the onset of death. Although a futile one, death is capable of coming when it is most unlikely, and at any age. Whereas some people prepare for death by generating written directives beforehand, many simply do not implement such actions and leave the hearth-retching task of deciding whether to prolong their lives opposed to allowing then to die to practitioners, family members, and love ones.
Although popular opinion frequently differs, the issue of prolonging life and euthanasia is as pertinent as individual opinion; eluding to moral values and principles. Although ageless, susceptibility to this type of medical crisis involves long-term illnesses in which individuals experience loss of body function (s); requiring either a decisions for prolonging life through life supporting techniques, or euthanasia. By definition and understanding prolonging life (life supporting measures), and euthanasia are as different as day and night. Prolonging life means the applied un-natural assisted intervention of modern medicine and technological techniques to keep a person alive, whereas although complex, euthanasia has many names and definitions: mercy killing, assisted suicide, and the right to die (Moreno, 1995).
In stricter terms, euthanasia refers to omissions or actions that willingly result in the death of an individual who is already gravely ill; inclusive of techniques of active euthanasia such as gunfire to lethal injection, passive euthanasia achieved by failing to treat pneumonia, or by withholding, or...